Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throngs of Filipinos stood in the rain beside the liquid roads of Leyte last week to watch the jeeps slosh by, to cheer, and cheer again. The whole green, steaming land had turned to quaking ooze. But there was no dampening the Filipino spirit...
...worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics, the "crook girls" inevitably followed the troops, to ply their trade in slatternly shacks...
...Life. But the past, and even the new threat of bombing by Japanese planes, seemed unimportant to Filipinos living amidst the great, exciting fact of the U.S. Army. The Army was everything to all men-entertainment, a source of supply, a rich and uncritical market, and a vast library of information. Filipino jazz lovers, who were still singing Oh, Johnny and The Dipsy Doodle, pumped soldiers for new songs and lyrics. In Tanauan, an enterprising Filipino, knowing G.I. tastes, set up a hamburger stand. Another stand sold G.I. ten-in-one rations back to the troops...
...ground so slippery that to climb the slightest incline men had to plod up with "herringbone" ski technique, or haul themselves up by thick overhanging vines. Some U.S. units were fighting three or four days from their base; their supplies were brought in by human pack trains-soldiers and Filipino laborers...
Technical Sergeant Lew Ayres, serving on Leyte as a chaplain's assistant with U.S. liberation forces, helped give medical treatment to Filipino victims of Jap bombings. Recognized by natives from his cinema role as Dr. Kildare, he said: "It gave me more of a thrill to be recognized by these people than by movie fans...